Archive for January, 2005
Post Six Grrrl Foxy Bliss
The Herald is happy to introduce our latest Post Six Grrrl, Foxy Bliss! Foxy is a member of both the Andale’s Angels and Top Models modeling groups. At this point in her Second Life, she enjoys clubbing and, of course, modeling. As usual, the Herald would like to thank Marilyn Murphy, publisher of Players Magazine [...]
Full StoryEmily Dickinson Comes to Life
by Miravoir Psaltery Over in Montemarte, they are currently having a grand build contest in honor of Emily Dickinson. Danny Degroot took a bit of time out of his busy schedule to tell me a bit about the details. Montemarte was designed to be a place where artists could collaborate on various projects. With buildings [...]
Full StoryHe’s Baaaaaack! BallerMoMo Returns, Attempts to Instigate Interclub Warfare
By Matthias Zander and Urizenus Sklar SL residents know that tensions occasionally flare between owners of nightclubs, but today’s drama was something new. Allegedly, someone associated with Paradise Island offered a payment of 20K Lindens to Lestat’s Dark Erotica owner Sox Rampal on condition that he bomb club The Edge. This appears to have been [...]
Full StoryAssault on Precinct 15
by Neal Stewart I’m taking a stroll through the Sido sim on Friday night when I notice a large concentration of green blips in the corner of my map. Something big is taking place. As the scene comes into a view I see an AH-1 Cobra Gunship parked on a rooftop. According to the map, [...]
Full StoryOp-Ed: Greenspanning the Grid
by Walker Spaight Hamlet Linden had the first of a two-part interview (or, more than one part, anyway) with Philip Linden yesterday on the recent economic changes in Second Life that’s certainly worth reading — though we find there’s not much new there that hasn’t already appeared on the forums and in meetings with Robin [...]
Full StoryMeet the W-Hats: swastikas, minors, obscenity, and griefing
Screenshot of the W-Hat property. Swastika since removed by Nova Linden. The W-Hats have been in the news of late, but who or w-hat are they exactly? In this interview we talk to their long time Baku neighbor One Song, who fills in the picture for us, and it isn’t pretty: despite several bannings, the [...]
Full StoryAD: GinkoTec Financial, A Second Life Savings Bank
*** ADVERTISEMENT ***GinkoTec Financial would like to invite all Second Life citizens tocome to our bank headquarters in Arena (168, 112). We already takedeposits for savings accounts, paying a great 1% a week interest. Talkto the manager (Nicholas Portocarrero) to see if you qualify for apersonal loan, or to just ask questions, and click our [...]
Full StoryTurning the Pages at the SL Public Library
by Walker Spaight Anyone who’s enjoyed the view lately from Eddie Escher’s striking Seacliff Tower has probably noticed the clean lines and purple windows of the building that sits just across the water to the south, in Gualala. A good-sized build whose heavy dark columns make the rest of the structure seem to float easily [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Business Girl vs. Griefer Kin
by A Concerned Reader Like her or dislike her, Anshe Chung is one of the richest and most famous (or infamous) people in Second Life. So when she posted in the SL forums complaining about the actions of her W-Hat neighbors in Baku where she had just bought land, there were some predictable jeers, but [...]
Full StoryThe Human Face of Economic Change
Orhalla Zander: victim of recent economic changesphoto by Herald Paparazza Miravoir Psaltry Miravoir Psaltry ran across this poor victim of the recent economic upheavals in Second Life. The plight of Orhalla Zander reminds us that while the Linden Lab game devs sup on caviar and toast points in the Company Cafeteria, not everyone is so [...]
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